Here are some of the many exciting projects and new work on the go at Rost Productions ltd:
- The Arizical – a new immersive piece on exhibition at Grosvenor Park in Chester until the end on March 2022, and then available to view at Wild Rumpus. It is part of Chester Designed by Nature, a project commissioned and produced by Wild Rumpus.
- Bath Meditations – a touring off-grid bathing experience. This amazing heated outdoor bath is available for private hire; anniversaries and other special occasions.
- Becoming Batty – a solo performing, stilt-walking bat, with spoken word, performed at the Tetley in Leeds among other places, and is available to fly in to arty events this year.
- Cuckoo Takeover – a cycle-powered cuckoo walkabout show. Performed at Just So festival and at Solfest 2021 and available for bookings this summer.
- Eva the Polar Bear – a giant walkabout mechanical lantern puppet which has taken part in parades, lantern festivals, walkabouts and protests, including COP26 and Extinction Rebellion in London. Eva is available for bookings (day and night time events).
- Extreme Ramblers – a range of colourful and unusual stilt walking walkabouts available for events.
- Gasping Goldie – a solo performance devised in response to a childhood memory of the artists pet goldfish.
- Peddlers Pack: so many things you never saw before-a highly interactive street theatre show.
- Pockets of Resistance – a walkabout show which is available for bookings, at outdoor events. It has performed at MK Gallery, Bedlam Fair and The Green Gathering.
- potential matter of the gaps – a site specific installation, initially created for MFA interim show, Pause, in 2020. The piece describes an intimacy of being, where all matter is interconnected.
- The Return – an installation commissioned by Walk the Plank for their ‘Fire Gardens’, and first shown at Greenwich and Docklands festival 2021 as part of the Reflection Gardens. This is part of a series of immersive sound installations; on-going works which aim to give collective spaces for pauses and re-connection.
- Shrine to the Liminal– an installation (or pilgrimage) of shrines with sounds, objects and participation. First created for Pause exhibition, Leeds 2020, it has since been developed for outdoors and will be installed as a sound trail at Green Gathering 2022.
Many other amazing structures, puppets, and performances in development, under commission and in production.
As well as making and touring new work Rost Productions also works on R&D projects and collaborates with other organisations and artists: Wild Rumpus, Vagabondi Puppets, Annual Daydream Harvest, Nick Garnett, and others, to create structures, events, walkabouts performance and shows.
For costs, availability and any further booking information please email: jessica@jessicarost.co.uk.
“I love working with Jessica Rost! – Her creativity is inspiring; her ability to vision the incredible, physically build it, and then dress it with an attention to detail that really brings things alive….. Also her professionalism – I know that as a performer I will be respected, allowed to create and play, but given the parameters I need to work with (as well as incredible structures to ride….) Also her personality – hard working but generous and fun, as the old song goes: ‘Always a pleasure, never a chore’.”
Cath Rigler, artist & performer, Apr 2018
“Jessica Rost has been an integral part of my career as a freelance artist. She has provided me space to create and a platform to present and promote my work. She is a truly inspirational and multi skilled artist, director and creator as well as a dear friend and it is always a pleasure to work alongside her.”
Emma Garofalo, artist, Apr 2018
“I have worked with Jessica Rost as a performer, collaborator and choreographer in many of the incredible shows she has directed and produced over the years. She always manages to find her own language, so unique to her work, igniting a different aesthetic in the outdoor arts field and within the sculpture she creates. Her ability to transform objects and create anything from nothing is also very inspiring; all delivered with a serious commitment and passion for the environment. This has had a deep impact not only on me, but on many of my colleagues whom she has worked with.”
Manuela Benini, artist & choreographer, Apr 2018
